Teaching from Within:

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Teaching from Within

• identifying and developing the qualities of
  teaching that reside within ourselves.

Presented by Elsie Chan, University of Victoria
Speakers Bureau
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As a teacher, we need to

• Recognize the teaching qualities which lie within
  us.
• Develop these qualities by practicing and testing
  ourselves.
• Maintain these qualities throughout our teaching
  careers.

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Passion

• Is an inner desire expressed.
• Provides energy, focus/intensity, persistence,
  excellence.
• Is integral to achieving success and
  satisfaction.
• Motivates teachers to teach out of love, rather
  than expectation or requirement.

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Respect

• Comes from treating opinions and questions with
  respect.
• Seek mutual understanding.
• Requires teachers to listen without judgement.
• Requires teachers to remember the weaknesses of
  children.
• Assists children to develop obedience, patience
  and loyalty.

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Compassion

• Requires teachers to know who their students are.
• Requires teachers to put themselves in their
  students places and empathize with them.
• Acknowledge students struggles.
• Avoid favoritism.
• Assists children to develop love, caring,
  kindness, self-esteem, and obedience.

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Responsibility

• Involves discipline and should be accepted as
  good.
• Is evident when teachers set good examples by
  being responsible to their students.
• Requires teaching to have direction and momentum.
• Assists children to develop discipline,
  self-control, and obedience.

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Integrity

• Is essential, as the foundation of trust, to
  cooperation and long-term personal and
  interpersonal growth.
• Is partly honesty - telling the truth (conforming
  our words to reality).
• Is keeping keeping promises and fulfilling
  expectations (conforming reality to our words).
• Requires an integrated character, a oneness with
  self and with life.

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Integrity (Continued)

• Is demonstrate through loyalty to those who are
  not present.
• Treats everyone by the same set of principles.
• Avoids any communication that is deceptive.
• Assists children to develop truth, honesty, and
  discernment.

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Initiative

• Recognize knowledge is transferable.
• Encourages you to find your own ways to enhance
  learning.
• Leads teachers to visualize childrens futures.
• Anticipates the needs and reactions of children.
• Motivates teachers to be generous, have courage,
  and be motivated to enhance and facilitate
  learning.
• Assists children to develop generosity, courage,
  and motivation.

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Forgiveness

• Is not a denial of pain, or anger or other
  emotions we may feel.
• Involves absorbing the pain and letting the
  offender go free.
• Is not dependent on the repentance of the
  perpetrator, or the one who has offended us.
• Is not synonymous with restoration of things to
  the way they once were in fact they can never be
  the same.
• Is becoming unhooked emotionally and achieving
  freedom.
• Assists children to develop humility, joy, peace,
  and love.

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Character Development

• Recognize that children develop character slowly
  and in stages.
• Respect children and require respect in return.
• Teach and develop character by example.
• Help children learn to think honestly.
• Help children assume real responsibilities.
• Balance a high support and a high level of
  control.
• Initiate and demonstrate forgiveness - regardless
  of blame.
• Provide ways for children to make choices
• Ask questions instead of giving answers